Tekken 6 was released in arcades in Japan late last year and it was expected that the title would eventually make its way to the next -
gen console market.
Not exact matches
In America that's for sure but all
consoles have taken a dip in japan.America is owned by ps4 at this time and America is the main
market that you wan na dominate this
gen
Today Sony has revealed to VG247 Italy in occasion of the announcement of the Italian PlayStation League, Sony's take on the eSports, that PlayStation 4 has a
market share of 70 % for what concerns current
gen consoles.
Consequently, total hardware sales during January aren't far from the 34,000 figure despite the
console being the only «next -
gen console» on the
market.
Bethesda's head of PR and
Marketing gives insight on the company's waning support for Nintendo's next -
gen console...
It's a good move, UK is an important
market which pretty much helped 360 along with US of course to finish virtually tied with ps3 at 80mil sold before next
gen consoles were released.
We are really reaching the upper limits of what
console gaming can be in a lot of ways, and now that we are hitting these second & third years on the
market, we will start seeing the actual quality & length of these games catch up to the graphical advantages to mark the first true wave of what next
gen will be.
«Your saying power doesn't matter, so your telling me that if microsoft start hurling out the exclusives to the rate what sony have this
gen,» But that will never happen, they may indeed up their
console exclusive output, but they will never go back to full exclusives as they want the PC
market as well.
@Kribwalker2h ago [@joerc So by your logic, which is rediculous by the way, this
gen MS has Xbox and windows 10 devices as they are providing games on both platforms much like Sony was in the PS3, ps2 and vita, so MS
market share is way beyond Sony this
gen with more then 350million windows 10 devices already out there by July] So PC now count as game
consoles now?
Both
consoles are decimating the previous
gen by a wide margin, be happy the
console market is still showing signs of life and growth.
I mean yeah the Wii sales-wise won last
gen but I think the real victor was the 360 due to mass appeal, the
market share they stole from Sony and it was the
console to own for superior multi-plats.
CEO Yves Guillemot announced that the company is making moves towards the free - to - play
market and next -
gen consoles.
I think it's more proof of concept that there's a larger
market for this product itself than Nintendo's mainline current -
gen consoles.
Luckily for Microsoft, the Xbox One version being alone on the
console market has the effect of making the title feel like a next
gen exclusive without actually being one.
Compared to its competitors whose next
gen console has been out on the
market for six months, Sony's PlayStation 4 has to date sold 7 million units while Microsoft's Xbox One has sold 5 million units.
If legit, the 56 - page document titled «XBox 720 -9-24 Checkpoint Draft 1» reveals a host of details about the technology being rolled out with the next -
gen Xbox and Microsoft's thinking about the competition in not just the rarified
console market but also from Apple and Google.
Encrusting into releasing a more expensive new
console with a loss in
market share over their previous
gen is a gamble.
Until the PS4 was released, my preferred
console since the NES days has never been the most powerful on the
market, and I'd wager if people really go back and record their favorite system of each
gen, regardless of when they started, most would find they also generally did not go for the most powerful
console more than half the time.
Ergo, mid
gen consoles bringing stronger chips to the
market and bringing down X1 and ps4 price.
One the «next
gen»
consoles had all hit the
market, I remember telling my friends that I thought the Wii U was the absolute best
console of its generation.
Right now
console sales are tracking higher than last
gen however we are already seeing a contraction in the
market where the Wii U is dead, the Xbox One isn't doing as well as it could and the PS4 is the strongest but ultimately won't sell anything like the Wii as it doesn't have the USP's that the Wii had.
This article will look deeper into why last
gen was so successful in growing the
console market compared to this
gen which is set to see a decline in users and stagnated growth in revenue generation from both software and hardware.
Despite a massive drop in sales for the
market which saw a decline of 23 % for the month, next
gen consoles managed to stay relatively in single digit...
Why is the Vita (a portable that could nearly push this
gen's
console graphics) the one portable that should give you cheaper games than the rest of the
market?
We estimate that the PlayStation 4 has 50 %
market share worldwide for 8th
gen consoles and that share will continue to grow as we move further into the generation.
If you're in the
market for a white version of Sony's current -
gen gaming machine, this Destiny
console bundle is the one you're gonna wan na go with.
The next -
gen console will release November 22 in the following areas, with other
markets will follow in 2014: read more
And once the next -
gen consoles hit the
market, the big push to upgrade could be the final nail in the coffin.
«It is huge for the core games industry in general — when combined with Xbox One's sales numbers, at least 15m - plus next -
gen consoles have sold in Western
markets since Christmas.»
Alas, next
gen consoles will almost definitely have some way of safeguarding against the used game
market and will make us buy new to play there games or be charged some kind of fee (like EA) to play anything besides the basic campaign.
Two years after our first in - depth feature on the company, we revisit Tose to find out how Nintendo's
market dominance in Japan is affecting the development climate, about the challenges Japanese developers face in reaching Western audiences, and whether Tose — who primarily develops now for Wii, PS2 and DS — is prepared to make the move onto next -
gen consoles.
The Wii U, the first next -
gen console to hit the
market, has shown us a dreadful, if not silent, first three months....
With the two next -
gen consoles being so close to parody, every single day on the
market ahead of MS results in stolen sales from X1.